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Chanting Completes All Purification  184    The Servants of Death Fear Devotees  186
CHAPTER FOUR
The Hamsa-Guhya Prayers Offered to the Lord by Prajāpati Dakṣa
The Anger of the Pracetās After Long Austerities  194    Soma Pleads for the Life of the Trees  195    The Lord of Lords Provides Food for Everyone  197    A Good King Protects All Forms of Life  200    The Body Is a Temple  202    Dakṣa Is Born to Populate the Universe  205    Dakṣa Retires for Austerities  208    The Lord Is Invisible to Material Eyes  210    The Trance of God Realization  214    How  Yogīs  Find the Supersoul  217    The Person Behind Everything  224    Learned Men Forget Their Souls for Philosophy  226    The Common Basis for All Philosophies  229    The Lord Descends to Favor the Devotees  232    Only  Kṛṣṇa  Is to Be Worshiped  235    The Lord, Riding on Garuḍa, Appears to Dakṣa  240    Dakṣa Congratulated  243    How to See God's Impersonal Form  249    Before the Creation  251    A Wife for Dakṣa  257
CHAPTER FIVE
Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa    261     The Haryaśvas Perform Austerities  262    Nārada Muni's Allegory  266